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Welcome to the BME Sound page.
Here you will find:
This site has been modified for mobile devices to make for easier viewing.
The site is best experienced on desktop, tablet or laptop, with headphones.
This is the entire novel laid out as a timeline, complete with parts, chapters and sub-headings.
Tap any underlined section to listen.
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Thank you for visiting bmesound. Everything you heard here (field recordings, sound constellations, and narrative samples) are components of the sonic version of Beginning Middle End. All these sounds were recorded on location in Sicily and the Aeolians by Charles de Montebello and Ricardo Giraldo.
Throughout the sonic novel, these sounds are weaved together, forming a chorus made not from human voices but from the four elements. We hope that you enjoyed listening to all these individual components and that you enjoy listening to the full sonic novel.
The photographs are by Ricardo Giraldo, polaroids by Valeria Luiselli and videos by Charles de Montebello.
A special thanks to: Marco Alessi, Maurizio Biviano, Nino Greco, Everest de Montebello, Kivlighan de Montebello, Maia Enrigue Luiselli, Lia Luiselli, Marta López, Giovanni Paple, Pulso de Barro, Claudia Rodríguez Quintana, Pietro “Sorriso” Tomarchio and Vito
Tap on the names in the list to listen to samples of the raw field recordings of the novel’s winds, seas, rains, tides, fields, volcanoes, bells and voices.
These are twelve sound mixes that create “constellations” between different locations.
They are used in the sonic book as heard here.